After renovations, building will include apartments, Little Bee Thai

9:35 PM,
Mar. 14, 2014

The Downtown Market building on South French Broad Ave. was sold this week to the owners of Asheville Distilling Co.

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Troy and Charlie Ball of Asheville Distilling Co., makers of Troy & Sons moonshine, have bought the Downtown Market building at 42 S. French Broad Ave. and plan to give it a facelift.

The 42,000-square-foot building, which sold for $720,000, is home to several businesses, including a wine bar, flea market, Hi-Fi Cafe and discount grocery store Hopey & Co. (the former Amazing Savings). Many of those businesses plan to stay and expand, and the popular Little Bee Thai eatery is likely to get a permanent home there as early as late spring. Little Bee Thai will move into the north end of the building, ...